Palliative Care Unit

Original title: Palliativstation
Duration: 245 min
Release date: 2025-02-19
IMDB

Life only ends with the final heartbeat. The palliative care unit at Berlin’s Franziskus hospital. For one summer, Philipp Döring documents conversations driven by humanity, institutional bottlenecks and the light that streams in despite everything.

Documentary

Palliativstation

Crew arrow_drop_down

Recomendation Films

  • Love, Antosha
  • Public Speaking
  • McQueen
  • Finders Keepers
  • John Candy: I Like Me
  • Powaqqatsi
  • Life in a Day
  • 28 Up
  • Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski
  • Showrunners: The Art of Running a TV Show
  • Bobby Robson: More Than a Manager
  • Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold
  • Frida
  • Fuck
  • Filmworker
  • Halloween: 25 Years of Terror
  • My Mom Jayne
  • Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me
  • Hell and Back Again
  • Wormwood

NextFilm 2026